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| Newer page: | version 5 | Last edited on Wednesday, March 24, 2004 7:39:40 am | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
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Key servers are repositories of keys in public key systems, they are necessary infrastructure for the widespread and easy use of systems such as [PGP] and [GnuPG]. Normally [KeyServer]s are publically accessible, allowing for querying, retrieval and long-term archiving of public keys.
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!! Keyservers for [OpenPGP]
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(OpenPGP is the standard that [GPG] and [PGP] adhere to).
If you're new to [GPG], and wondering what you're supposed to do with your newly created key, here are some key servers you can upload and receive keys to/from.
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* wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net (a subset of the above)
* the.earth.li (aka wwwkeys.uk.pgp.net)
* www.pgpkeys.net (I think this is part of the above network...?)
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+* random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de (round-robin [DNS] for SKS, an entire network of new RFC2440 and RFC2440bis compatible keyservers - see http://www.nongnu.org/sks/)
!"Other" key servers
These servers (apparently?) don't synchronise with the above.
* www.mandrakesecure.net
* keyserver.net (this is on the [redhat manual|http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/s1-gnupg-export.html] as an example. Interestingly, it says that '' Because most keyservers are synchronized, sending your public key to one keyserver is usually as good as sending it to them all.'' Yet i can't pick up keys from it using the.earth.li. I also can't find keys on it from wwwkeys.nl.php.net -- AlastairPorter
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